Doing some really quick research today, I want to get past this phase quickly because procrastination by thinking "I have to do more research" is a real problem for fiction writers/creators and has destroyed my attempts at making games and comics before. So today I jumped into looking at Dan Harmon's 8 Step Story Circle.
The main breakdown of the story circle is this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XGUVkOmPTAÂ
But there's a counterpoint to using the story circle in this video, which brings up good counter-arguments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoUSX4Y_WS0
These two above youtube videos explain how to structure a long-form story/visual novel. So outside of NANORENO, these two videos are great. But while we have only 22 days to make a VN, I found an absolute gem of an article. It breaks down Harmon's circle straight from his own writing staff's sessions for making Rick and Morty episodes: https://medium.com/fictionhub/rick-and-morty-writers-room-c2b79d6fe43c
This was so much more helpful for me to understand short story writing. Now, there are a lot of different story structure narratives to follow but for this VN, I'm going to strictly focus on Harmon's structure and just get the ball rolling and be done with the script so I can move on.
I did a quick story structure breakdown of one of my favorite Regular Show episodes, "I'm Eggscellent". And I will be using that as my reference and Harmon's circle as the foundation.
